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Check Out These Fantastic Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard!
“The 3D fractals are generated by iterative formulas whereby the output of one iteration forms the input for the next. The formulas effectively fold, scale, rotate or flip space. They are truly fractal in the fact that more and more detail can be revealed the closer to the surface you travel.” Read more!
Check Out This Insane Circus Wheel-House for Acrobats!
A bit like a hamster wheel, the Wheel House is powered by repetitive kinetic motion: A male and a female performer, both dressed as hobos, repeatedly climb over one another to slowly roll the dwelling, setting off a series of small bells and creaking noises. Read more!
Check Out This Undulating Stonescape by Kengo Kuma!
The clean and pure ‘pieta serena’ stone recreates a topography that, as in real landscapes, molds the shape of water, guides our walking and gives a context to the objects to better admire them. Read more!
Beautiful Modern Barn Renovation by Loïc Picquet Architectes!
The project created four lodging rooms in a farm building in Alsace. A new wood addition was designed as a natural and fluid extension of the old farm, not only renovating it but honoring it by the use of its historic details. Read more!
Check Out This ‘Floating’ Research Facility by Taller Básico!
“The Technologic Park of Vitoria colonizes a little bit of nature. The quality of the site and its steepness make us question where to build. Two boxes made from air rise above the slope. The whole complex in a permanent flight reveals a new gravity.” Read more!
Schoolgirls Look Out onto China’s Alienating Urban Landscapes
In his beguiling photo series “Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V,” Chinese artist Weng Fen captures young women and new cities on the precipice of change. The backs of the young women face us, giving no hint of a personal identity, save for their slightly varied school uniforms. Meanwhile, the booming new buildings dominate the background, their postmodern facades signifying an increase of investment and oncoming changes throughout Chinese cities. Read more!
moby’s los angeles architecture blog
ok, graffiti.
i mean, technically it’s attached to a building, so it’s tangentially architecture? right?
well, maybe i just have too broad an idea of what constitutes architecture, as i’ve included pictures of clouds and lizards on this site. but i’m a college drop-out, so what do you expect? an erudite and reasoned consideration of exceptional buildings? or pictures of lizards and graffiti? how about an erudite and reasoned consideration of lizards and graffiti? and buildings, too, on occasion.
i also have a really hard time spelling words with double consonants. like: ‘occasion’. is that right? it looks like it should have 2 ‘s’s’.
so: graffiti. you have to admit, this graffiti is pretty remarkable. and it defines and establishes the space, far more than the building upon which it’s been painted. the building itself is kind of egregiously unremarkable. it’s only the graffiti that distinguishes the building from the few million other generic buildings in l.a.
i especially like the scary blue baby doll playing bongos. and the scary clown.
moby
Check Out This Sleek Mountain House by Stephen Dynia Architects!
Nestled into a hillside, this low profile residence creates a contrast of spatial experiences. The south and east side capture downhill views to the valley floor. On the northern uphill side, the house’s two wings form an intimate courtyard with a grove of aspen trees. Read more!
Astounding Tilt-Shift Perspectives of World Monuments!
Anyone who’s traveled to popular touristic sites knows the feeling of being caught in the crossfire of countless camera lenses—the annoyed (and annoying) jockeying to capture the perfect shot…which in most cases looks exactly like everyone else’s. When we stumbled across Richard Silver’s photographs of iconic monuments, we were shocked—caught in the same tourist hustle, Silver manages to give us a new perspective on famous landmarks we didn’t think possible. Read more!
Check Out Iwan Baan’s Amazing Architectural Photography!
Dutch photographer Iwan Baan has been at the forefront of architectural photography since 2005, when he documented both OMA’s CCTV tower and Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium in Beijing. Honored with the Architizer A+ Relevance Award, presented by New Museum director Lisa Phillips, Iwan Baan is among the most talented architectural photographers working today. His art lies not only in capturing the building as an object, or in mastering composition, but also in capturing the urban context and human life both within and beyond his subjects’ walls. Read more!
Julien De Smedt gets the unhappyhipsters treatment.
It wasn’t so much that he didn’t see the messages from The Internet; it was that he didn’t know how to respond.
(Photo: Frederik Vercruysse; Dwell)
Check Out These Psychedelic Architectural Collages by Hugo Barros!
Evocative of that heady post-1968 period of architectural exploration, the collages of Lisbon-based artist Hugo Barros recharge the legacy of psychedelic graphics in the representation of built form. Some of these collages feature floating surfaces of a giant scale, recalling Superstudio’s Earth-devouring Continuous Monument. Others superbly juxtapose disaster and architectural stability, challenging structural equilibrium and suggesting kinetic buildings. Read More!
Graffiti Lab sent us a city in the mail - all assembled without glue from single sheets of laser-cut paper.
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